The stupid war against terrorism:This is the stupidest war that I have ever seen.

Michael L. Love Ph.D

01/29/06 02:39 PM

US aggression against so-called terrorists has led predictably to bad results,
and we should take all necessary action to stop the war now: It is a stupid,
stupid war.

The state of the
nation is appalling, but US power is clustered primarily around the centers
of wealth (military might, and oil resources) in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, and the situation is only getting worse. This result is not
surprising since the premise of the war was
flawed to begin with, and the execution of the war has devolved over the course
of the past three years, so that the US is stuck in a sink hole, as it were. We must find a way to end this ridiculous war against terrorism and get the US out
of Iraq and Afghanistan now. Stop the war now!

The leader of the US is clearly slow of mind, and the claims in support of the
war are dubious at best. The resources that are being spent in the pursuit
of al-Qaida are largely wasted because they are probably dead. Most of them
died on 9/11 on the airplanes, and no terrorism has been reported since that
time. Why are the resources of the US being wasted on this demented pursuit?

A simple review of the our history in Iraq will show the idiocy of our leaders.
Despite this fact, that all known terrorists died in airplanes on 9/11,
we subjected Iraq to repeated bombings, laid waste to their
national infrastructure, starved their children with sanctions, and
poisoned their environment with depleted uranium, among other egregious things.
Then, after using the UN to emasculate their military, we took our
exit from international chambers and viciously preempted, an invasion
with an aim to throw down
a sitting head of state, conquer cities, ports, and oil
fields. We cruelly deprived the people of Iraq of their self-determination,
lives, and wealth.
After all of this depraved behavior on the part of the US, we
expect the people of Iraq to welcome us as "liberators", and lay themselves
low before our military power. How can we possibly be such imbeciles!

Clearly, the US has fully lost credibility as the protector of any values or
virtues in the world; We should disavow the actions of the nation, end the
current administration,
and bring the troops home expeditiously. In the execution of this war the US
appears as the equivalent of perdition's son and a whited
sepulchre, vacuously quoting scripture as they kill proudly. They are full
of bloodthirsty torture and murders in the dark; attacking their supposed
enemies before they even become a credible threat. Given such
a history I fear that the US is past redemption, so that no one should be
judged for wishing to dissociate themselves from the
nation and their actions. It had such better potential than this.

Saddam was certainly a bad governor and evil person, but for purposes of US
global domination, he was also established,
propped up, and deliberately genocide-enabled by the US.
When he lost favor with the oilygarchy, it was
taken it out on the people of Iraq, in
a US instigated downward spiral of misery. Before US
intervention, Iraq was a secular modern state and friends of the US,
not terrorists. Terrorism was no justification for the war, and in fact
the war itself was a very act of terrorism. The US has become what we loathe.

At the outset of the war Mr Bush was a weak president, unsupported by a
democratic majority, yet he presumed to lead the US into an unpopular war
against the wishes of
our closest friends. One might expect him to learn the lessons of history
and know better, but instead
we are subjected to more and more lies from his weak-minded, frenetic, and untrustworthy
administration. He has propped up his power with egregious violations of
our constitutional principles, such as the Patriot Act, FISA court violations,
secret detentions, deportions, tortures, and killings.

This inane government will certainly retort that, "We are killing the
terrorists", and if that were true, then it would destroy this argument.
I say, "Show me the terrorists, Mr Bush, if you have killed so many". You have
not produced a single one since 9/11. Your failure to combat the real problem
is exasperating! Senseless.

It is our duty to express our opposition by taking action against this
outrageous, evil, and stupid war. For example, we could plan an
anti-war moratorium; a national strike, a stay home against the war protest.
Many people are boycotting US corporations or attacking centers of wealth in the US. Practice austerity and boycott food products, technology
products, computers, and pharmacuticals especially. Use the web and your
prescriptions to get generic medicines abroad. Use free software instead of
Microsoft. Sell your car, and buy a bicycle. Use public transportation, and send the
money that you save to your favorite organization resisting the war.
If you feel strongly against the war, then you
should do something about it now, even if the impact is low, because it
adds to what others are doing.
All of these actions will let people know that it is important to
stop the war. It is a statement and demonstration against the war, and
if we all do it together, then we can stop the madness of the US and Bush
administration. This type of activism works.

Use the "Resist War!" banner on your websites to spread the word against the
war. Turn your
websites black in protest, and link your sites together, and with ours. If we
were joined by many other websites, then it could possibly have a
major impact, and turn back from this egregious situation.
Hundreds of millions of people now agree
that the war is wrong, and that it should be ended.
If everyone does everything that we can, then
the situation will become even more intolerable, and the US will
withdraw.

The truth is that the people of Iraq are defending their homeland
against an un-provoked act of aggression. The US has killed many of
their brave fighters, but they continue to fight. In their desolation,
there are many Iraqis remaining
who have welcomed us into their cities, but given our
abysmal performance, even such subjugation is seriously in doubt.
Despite this abhorrent situation, the war continues, and it is madness to think
that the continued presence of the US contributes anything positive to the
situation. It is in no way possible that the presence of such a desolator
can offer any betterment to the people of Iraq. Still I am
advocating for
enforced reparations to be paid by the US to Iraq and Afghanistan after
withdrawl.
The dubious leaders of the US are misusing their armed forces in an egregious
way.
Bring the troops home now before they are ordered to commit any more
barbarities.
This will have the added benefit of sparing the people of Iraq any
further misery at the hand of the US nation. US out!
End the conquest and occupation of Iraq now!